“You did hear why the police was called to the parking lot, I am sure.

“Kim backed into a parent’s car on registration day.

“The parent called the police.’’

— Bridgeton Midget Football

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And, hopefully, their insurance company.

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In the future, all coaching clinics will also require driving instruction.

This has to stop.

Parking lot rage will not be tolerated.

Had it been a Cape May fan, there goes the probation!

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Has anybody ever connected Midget Football with life instruction?

Do any ministers talk to the players as they sit in the bleachers en masse?

Do any of those charged with improving community relations ask to talk to the kids?

Have you ever asked Sherman Denby or Cyndy Wilks or Peggy Van Meter to talk to the kids?

Capt. Mike Gaimari?

Wendell Lloyd?

Tom Lane IV?

Karen Barnett?

Jerry Young?

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And when all that has been said the done, you do parenting classes.

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The special event associated with this year’s 41st annual Greenwich Artisans’ Faire and Marketplace to be held on Sept. 29-30 is a celebration of the “Restoration of the Swedish Granary.”

Because plans are already under way for the preservation of this unusual surviving 17th century log structure crafted by Swedish settlers, the Cumberland County Historical Society is planning a brief ceremony to highlight the Swedish Granary and to honor its donor, Robert E. Fralinger Jr.

Tentative plans call for the ceremony to take place on Saturday, Sep. 29, at 2 p.m., in front of the Granary while the Craft Fair is in operation.

As you enter the grounds of the faire, you will meet over 40 artists and craftsmen (eight new crafters this year) from throughout New Jersey who will display and sell their unique creations during this two-day event.

The free, live “family style” entertainment includes the bluegrass and country music band, Home Cookin’, and a new attraction coming to Greenwich.

On Saturday only, one of the country’s rising young songwriters, 18year-old, Americana/Pop/Folk artist Savannah Valentino.

She has already played with and opened for a diverse array of artists — Eric Taylor, Elizabeth Cook and Jim Lauderdale — and she will open with Willie Nelson in the near future.

The Gibbon House, the Warren and Reba Lummis Genealogical & Historical Research Library, the Alan Ewing Carman Museum of Prehistory from Cumberland County, and the John DuBois Maritime Museum will be open for tours on both Saturday and Sunday and fireplace cooking demonstrations can be seen in the Gibbon House.

We hope to see you, your family and friends at the Artisans’ Faire.

Your attendance will help make this perfect fall event complete!

If you have any questions, call the CCHS at 856-455-8580 or 856-455-4055.

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“Dear CCHRC members,

“Trust you have had a great summer, and when we meet together next Tuesday, Sept 4, from 5 to 6 p.m., Labor Day will be gone and everyone seems to settle in, some even headed for the long winter nap.

Special guest vocalists and a relevant message by Pastor Robin Weinstein, followed by a free Community Day Picnic & Carnival from 3-6 p.m. at the church.

Faith in Action (FIA) is a five-week, church-wide campaign that creates an outward focus and a heart to serve in your congregation.

FIA culminates in a Sunday where regular services are canceled and the entire congregation engages in service projects in and with the community.

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On Tuesday at the church hall of Devine Mercy Church, in Vineland, Doug Long and Debbie Savigliano, of Bianca’s Kids, handed out backpacks complete with school supplies to 100 needy children in Cumberland County.

However, they experienced a minor glitch in their plan.

Some 200 children showed up for backpacks.

With the 100 donated backpacks from Bianca’s Kids quickly leaving the building in the hands of dozens of smiling children, there stood dozens more unexpected children with concerned faces, worried that they might leave empty handed.

It was then that Long turned to his friend at Bianca’s Kids and said, “There is no way any child is leaving here today without a backpack for school.’’

And the plan was hatched.

Savigliano would run to a local store and purchase 100 more backpacks to ensure every waiting child left with a brand new backpack and Long and Bianca’s Kids would split the cost.

When Savigliano returned to Devine Mercy with the truckload of 100 more backpacks. the church hall erupted in applause.

Long said, “Today was a stark reminder of the need in Cumberland County. Being able to provide minor relief to these families with free backpacks and schools supplies was wonderful, but I want to see the day when we have a backpack giveaway and no one shows up.’’

For those who wish to make a donation to Bianca’s Kids, contact debbie@biancaskids.org or make a donation via PayPal at the website at www.biancaskids.org.

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"Glad to read the dike story in the paper today.

"I knew nothing of this meeting.

"No one told me about it, but all the writings and meetings have begun to pay off.

"I always said the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

It was the work of the dike committee that got this done with help from our emergency management officer.''